Crop health analysis via Quadcopter based on remote sensing.

PROJECT SUMMARY It is pleasure to presents this proposal for precision agriculture drone based solutions that make your crop health assessment safer, efficient and effective. Agricultural drones permit better-than-satellite information on demand. Analyzing image and sp

Project Title

Crop health analysis via Quadcopter based on remote sensing.

Project Area of Specialization

Robotics

Project Summary

PROJECT SUMMARY

It is pleasure to presents this proposal for precision agriculture drone based solutions that make your crop health assessment safer, efficient and effective.

Agricultural drones permit better-than-satellite information on demand. Analyzing image and spraying fertilizer and detection of Phosphorus, Nitrogen and other chemical concentration in the field to monitor crop health, all without pilots, planes or satellites. Multiple sensor studies produce perfectly focused data, too, as RGB, red edge, near infrared and other spectral analysis tools can reveal crop health and maturity, sail moisture and environmental stress when and as required.

Especially in comparison with flight operations, agricultural drones provide highly specialized and detailed data at a significant cost savings, allowing operations to expand monitoring and analysis in a big way.

The most compelling reason for using agriculture drones is that data is on-demand whenever and wherever needed, agricultural drones can be easily deployed to gather up-to-the- minute information. These crop drones in the growing fields today are back-of-the truck equipment, bringing advanced growers crucial information faster than ever before.

Project Objectives

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

Our objective is to design and fabricate a Quadcopter Agricultural Drone capable of performing crop health assessments. The Project team will investigate for lighter weight design of components that make up an optimized UAV. Ideally, the design can be used for multiple agricultural purposes in Agriculture Industry.

The objectives of designing the model were to respect the following measures:

• To save the time on agricultural activities as much as possible.
• To estimate more approximate health of the crops to be treated.
• To get rid of agricultural losses.
• To perform agricultural activities in a more effective and efficient manner.

Project Implementation Method

PROJECTS IMPLEMENTATION METHOD

Implementation Method the following steps are to be performed to conduct a health assessment of an agricultural field. The implementation steps are as follows:

• Plan a flight mission in the Mission Planner.
• Upload the flight mission to the flight controller.
• Confirm all the safety checks before the flight.
• Make the camera ready to trigger.
• Conduct the flight mission as per the field area(planned).
• Capture the images.
• Mosaicing those images in a single image.
• Apply NDVI algorithms on MATLAB.
• Get the results in the form of spectra.
• And compare those results with the ideal spectrum.

Benefits of the Project

PROJECT BENEFITS

The Crops health assessment via drones allows the users/farmers to perform agricultural activities in an efficient manner by gathering the data in spectral form. This Method proves as a very beneficent technique to adopt. the benefits of this project are as follows:

• Allows the user/farmer in saving time for making agricultural decisions
• Allows the user/farmer to estimate the more approximate health & crop state of the crops to be treated.
• Allows the user/farmer to get rid of agricultural losses.
• Allows the user/farmer to perform agricultural activities in a more effective and efficient manner.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

TECHNICAL DETAILS

DESIGN CONSIDERATION

The following are the design considerations while designing the project:

• The design has considered the maximum time of flight with minimum energy consumption.
• The design has considered the use of weight-optimized components.
• The design has considered the use of a few parts as much as possible.
• Ergonomically easy to use.
• The design will be able to withstand several drops from approximately 3 feet and still function properly.

PROJECT SPECIFICATION

The Technical Details involve the following parameters and specifications of the parts:

1. Quadcopter.
2. RGB Camera.

QUADCOPTER

The Quadcopter consists of the common components required for the drone. By assembling and integrating all the components, the overall specifications of the UAV come out to be as follows:

• Total Thrust: 3400 grams
• Flight Height: 10 m
• Flight Time: 8 mins
• Flight Range: 2-3 Km
• Weight of Drone: 1530 grams

RGB CAMERA

Wide Angle: 70 degree

Video Resolution: 1080p 60 fps (MP4 video)

 Image Resolution: 12 Megapixels, 4000 x 3000 (max)   

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

Agriculture

Other Industries

Core Technology

Robotics

Other Technologies

Sustainable Development Goals

Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Responsible Consumption and Production, Life on Land

Required Resources

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